Worst case scenario for VR is that Taylor doesn't get the job but they have made the Stone Sour/Slipknot fans interested in the rumors to check out VR. Which means a younger generation of new fans.

Well, not really younger... VR have been around for less time than Slipknot and as long as Stone Sour. They may have older musicians in the band, but that's largely irrelevant. Every VR show I've been to has had a very young crowd.

VR never suffered from only being able to attract the old fans of their previous bands becaue anything that gets coverage in the mainstream magazines gets a young crowd. I don't really think it will make any difference to them at all if they don't get Corey.

But if they do, then yes more Slipknot/Stone Sour fans who weren't interested before will go and see them just to see Corey. That's a certainty.